Generating Struts portlet actions and action mapping codes

The same Action Class wizard that creates regular Struts actions is also used to generate Struts Portlet Framework (SPF) actions. When you select the model appropriate to your project (either the Generic Action or the Struts Portlet Framework Action), the wizard will create the action with the appropriate superclass. Both types of actions generated from the wizard are supported by WpsStrutsPortlet.

For developing new applications specifically for the portlet environment, the SPF provides a class, com.ibm.wps.struts.StrutsAction, that hides some of the servlet details that do not map well to execution in the WebSphere Portal environment. This class is a subclass of Action. It provides a better execute(ActionMapping, ActionForm, PortletRequest) method, without the response object, and with the PortletRequest parameter, which is more suitable than (Http)ServletRequest.

The new class also provides sendError methods to eliminate the need for response.sendError.

 

Related concepts

Creating Struts portlets and projects

 

Related tasks

Creating Struts portlet JSP files
Creating Struts portlets
Creating well-architected Web applications using Struts